Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-25
BECAUSE 1T GOES NOT FAR ENOUGH
To Suit the Warhks Soul Of Mr.. Riddle
berger The Grave Senators Lashed
Into a White Heat.
BITTER IDENTIFICATION OF ENGLAND,
The Hand That Moves Canada-0ne More
Outrage viii Precipitate War Beyond
the Control Of COngrsSS-The
Administrations Part

tiOn. Mr.. Ingalls, criticized therePOrt OF tie
Committee on Foreign Relations, and Mr..
Frye defended it, taking the ground that if
the President, under the authority con-
ferred upon him by the bill reported by the
committee, should close the ports Of the
United States against Canadian fish, the
entire trouble between the United States
and Canada would be at an end.
Senator Frye, in his remarks on the fish
cries question, grew very emphatic, and In
referring to recent law enacted by the
Canadian Parliament empowering every
petty customs official to arrest anddrag
into port, examine, condemn and contiscate
any United States vessel found within
three miles fishing limit inquired: "How
can such law help result i'll war;
Mr.. Frye proceeded to particularize many
of
THE OUTRAGES
to which American fishermen's vessels have
been subjected in Canadian waters. Among
them was the case of an American vessel
which had brought into a Canadian port
seventeen shipwreckedC Canadian sailorsand
had been refused the right to purchase u
barrel of flour to keep her crew from star
yation. He declared that the annals of
history leven of the Feeje Islands) might
be searched without finding case so
brutal and inhuman. He also quoted
THE CASE OF THE MARION CIR INES
An American schooner whose flag was
hauled down by Captain Quigley, of the
Canadian cutter, Terror. All these cases
he said had been brought TO the attention
of the British Government. That govern
ment knew the utter inhumanity Of these
cases, and knew that the Outrages had
been committed in violation of law, rs
we'll rs OF good neighbOrhOOd. Mr.. Vest
inquired whether, III the case OF the haul
ing down of the American flag by the
Governments of Great Britain, endorsed that
action of Captain Quigley; aud whether on
the contrary, that government had not
expressly diSavOwed the act and apOlogized
Tor it. He read from the report a note
from the English foreign office TO the
Canadian Government on the subject.
Mr.. EdmundS suggested that Captain
Ouigley was still in the Government ser
vice.
Mr.. Frye quoted from a recent statute
passed by the Dominion Government in
STILL FURTHER HOSTILITY
to American fishermen, and said that that
legislation had been approved by the
British Government. The hope, there
tore, that Great Britain would do what
was fair and Just was destroyed, and 1t
10 hot Al
have been the result. There was not 4
line, he said, in the history of Great Brit
ain tor the last 800 years that gave the
slightest reason TO believe that in the pur-
suit OF gain, in the pursuit of trade, she
would ever permit the right ot another to
stand in the way Of her progress. Every
one OF the cases he had referred to
WAS in violation OF the spirit
and four out of them were in violation OF
the letter of the treaty of 1912. Every one
of them were in violation of the rules OF
rood neighbOrhOOd, Of the civilization OF
the day and of the understanding Of all
civilized nations rs to the rights of foreign
ships in their ports.
But THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNEW
that they were 90, 0O0, 600, they knew that
they were the richest nation OF the earth,
they knew their power and would not hu-
initiate themselves and do violence to their
conscious pride by reSOrting to little, mis-
erable tricks and Outrages by way of retail
iation. What the Committee on Foreign
Relations sought was that the President oi
the United States should be empowered to
close American ports against any fisher
man. or all fishermen, against any
merchant vessel, or all merchant
vessels. The Queen of Great Britain had
to-day the power to close her ports against
anv of the products of the whole world il
she sswfi I. lie saw no objection to en-
trusting that power to the President. lie
believed that the President would only
have to take advantage Of this bill anu
ISSUE HIS PROCLAMATION
that no fish, fresh or salt or canned or
smoked, the product of Canadian fisheries,
shall be landed in any port of the United
States, and not another outrage by this
| British colony would be heard OF. But, n
these Outrages were TO continue and wert
to result in reciprocity treaty, rs had
been the ease before, that treaty
would again he abrogated, and
the outragsS would he again
renewed. The bill on the same subject IN
the House of Representatives went further
than this bill. 1t gave the President au'
thority to proclaim absolute nOn-inter'
course. He did not believe that the
| House Committee ON Foreign Affairs
would have reported that bill without
knowing whether or not
THE ADMINISTRATION
was in sympathy with it. The Senator
| from Maryland, Mr. GOrman), had intro
duced a resolution on the same subject
some time ago, and that Senator Wa
/ known to be friend of the adminlstra-
| ton.
The Secretary of the Treasury, one ol
the brightest men in the Administration
had lately sent communication to tht
senate reviewing the conduct of Canada IL
this matter and had declared 1t TO b.
simply brutal"
The Secretary of State had used diplo
matie language on the subject. but ever
be had said, over and over again the act;
of the Canadian authorities were out
rageOus, and that the United States would
demand restitution.
Mr.. Gray quoted the Secretary of State
as charscterizing lin note to Ministe
Vest the acts of the Canadian authoritie
as
"INHOsPIrABLE AND INHUNAE." .
Mr.. Frye added that the American Min
ister to England (Mr. Phelps) had mad
an uneXceptionable, clear, = complete
and to him, entirely satisfactory statement
} OF the whole case. This law, he said, haC
power in 1t He believed that the Presiden
had at heart the honor and dignity of tn
great Republic over which he presided Ill
believed that the President was in favor o
protecting the rights of every America
citizen. Aye, more; he believed that b